[alsa-devel] question about bluez using alsa and patches
I was told that when using the btsco(bluez) and/or plugs bluetooth headset software a patch is always required. In the Gentoo community and perhaps everywhere it is suggested to use alsa compiled into your kernel. As I go to new kernels frequently these folks (sco headset) seem to have no such forward support ie they have not worked on the patches yet for the newer kernels. Am I wrong or at some point in time should this app not be weaned from using patches? Is it the fact they use sco that they have to patch? Is there not an alsa library they can program to instead. I guess I don't understand the overall design so I can't see why this goes on forever. I'm somewhat apprehensive about trusting others to continually modify my kernel.
Am I out in left field here? Can anyone explain why they must choose this path?
Thanks very much. -Walt
On 6/14/07, Walt Shekrota wshekrota@optonline.net wrote:
I was told that when using the btsco(bluez) and/or plugs bluetooth headset software a patch is always required.
What patch? Do you have a reference?
Lee
It is within their tarball btsco as from cvs. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa log cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa co btsco Once untarred cd to kernel. Thanks. -Walt
On Thursday 14 June 2007 20:38, Lee Revell wrote:
On 6/14/07, Walt Shekrota wshekrota@optonline.net wrote:
I was told that when using the btsco(bluez) and/or plugs bluetooth headset software a patch is always required.
What patch? Do you have a reference?
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At Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:45:25 -0400, Walt Shekrota wrote:
I was told that when using the btsco(bluez) and/or plugs bluetooth headset software a patch is always required. In the Gentoo community and perhaps everywhere it is suggested to use alsa compiled into your kernel. As I go to new kernels frequently these folks (sco headset) seem to have no such forward support ie they have not worked on the patches yet for the newer kernels. Am I wrong or at some point in time should this app not be weaned from using patches? Is it the fact they use sco that they have to patch? Is there not an alsa library they can program to instead. I guess I don't understand the overall design so I can't see why this goes on forever. I'm somewhat apprehensive about trusting others to continually modify my kernel.
Am I out in left field here? Can anyone explain why they must choose this path?
Because no one posted a patch to merge to the upstream...
Takashi
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